A selection of recordings and live performances by Alvin Curran and his group MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva). This is classic, avant-garde, electro-acoustic music from the 1960s and early 70s.
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Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer-performer-improviser Alvin Curran, who comes to San Francisco from Rome for the performance of his piece Canti Illuminati for solo piano, voice, and tape. The inspiration comes from songs his father would sing in synagogue, which is included in the piece as well as excerpts from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, a singing woman in Florence, a chorus, and Curran himself performing on piano and synthesizer. Curran also discusses his performance practice as...
Topics: Electronic, Interview, Alvin Curran, Electro-acoustic, KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series
Charles Amirkhanian presents an Ode to Gravity program featuring an interview with the composer Alvin Curran from his home in Rome. Selections from this informal talk with Curran are interspersed with musical excerpts, with a special emphasis on the group Curran helped found in the mid-1960s, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). The composer discusses his co-founders, who included Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Alan Bryant, and describes the synthesis of the group, its working methods, and...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Interview and Music, Avant-Garde, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran is one of the most active and inventive avant-garde and electronic music composers of the current and past century. He was the co-founder of the radical music collective, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), and has taught at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, as well as at Mills College, where he was a visiting Professor of Music from 1991 to 2006. He specializes in works for keyboard, percussion, winds, voices, and natural sounds, often performed at outdoor sites. In...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Alvin Curran, Interview, Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic
Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and musician Alvin Curran before a live audience on September 28, 1989, as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. Curran creates a sensuous music with instrumental, vocal, electronic , and natural sounds. In addition to his work as a founding member of the Rome based, radical avant-garde, group Musica Electtronica Viva (MEV), Curran has composed for many large-scale outdoor events. This program includes excerpts from...
Topics: Speaking of Music Series at the Exploratorium, Interview and Music, Soundscapes, Avant-Garde, Alvin...
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"INCICLARSI", sbuffoni album with (b)ananartista orgasmo, franco sbuffranco, chop, autocratotia, dilebimba, il capo dei mammamia, olivierodimerda, iacco, cieu man cieu, capragmatico, alban, grace, grey, romania, alisce, giosb ufo, prazzi81, sboh, oldiung, sensilia, violinista, ruuviz, coprasimbo, uccellino, ghiaio, altri, tuvaior, brau, sud america, il signor cazzo figa e altri sbuff sboof sbuffoni. - more info: www.bananartista.com www.myspace.com/bananartista info@bananartista.com
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Topics: (b)ananartista, bananartista, banana, anana, b, sbuff, sboof, sbuffiz, sbuffoni, sbuffone,...
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'ENDANGERED SPECIES - the economics of appropriation' In his piece Alvin Curran intermeshes sounds and musics of all cultures, classes and contexts to create a true panacoustic avantgarde experience. Musica povera viva. For more info see http://audiopoverty.de/
Topics: Alvin Curran, concert, improv, music, live electronics, appropriation, avantgarde
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Freitag 17.1.2014 22.00 - 0.00 "Also frage ich mich: Wird der Mythos Schönberg den Cecil Taylors überleben oder werden beide verblassen, während Beethoven und Dr.Dre mit der Beute durchbrennen?" Alvin Curran in Peter Niklas Wilson: "Von der sozialen Irrelevanz improvisierter Musik" In der ernüchternden Bilanz sprach Peter zwei Kritikpunkte an: den " Bedeutungsverlust, den Improvisation erleidet, wenn sie von der sozialen Dynamik abgekoppelt wird, die sie...
Topics: soziale Irrelevanz,, improvisierte Musik, Peter Niklas Wilson, Alvin Curran, Judith Haman,...
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Templo Sagital is an art chilean collective that`s work to produce honest and non capitalistic art. Some of the bands in this collective, and in this compilation (uploaded in the summer of the year 2008) are: UN FESTÍN SAGITAL, THANATOLOOP, NAUSEAABUNDA, SILENCIO SOLAR, DAZ TRONENBURG and PETALO BISTURI. But also here we include tracks from some international friends: NAVE!, SHELTER DEATH and MOOZLER The music is VERY eclectic, going from rock in oposition to pop, from progressive to...
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Topics: Festin Sagital ", " psychedelia ", " post industrial ", " art rock...
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This is a live recording. Related to Un Festin Sagital, Cinturon Negro, Megajoy and De Plastico Verde... all nice examples of the chilean experimental scene... check this one! a very intense musical trip, with very melacholic moments, mixed with a funny wierdness, that strike in a dark noisy harsh textures and dissonants guitars, with sad voices become bizarre, and with beautiful songs become chaotic!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Untas los...
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Topics: Templo Sagital, Festin Sagital, Petalo Bisturi, Pop, Post Rock, Avant Garde, Psychedelic, Dark,...
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Templo Sagital is an honest non-capitalistic art collective. On this compilation from 2006 you can find a VERY eclectic mix of rythims, armonies, noises and moods. Music and noises from: Un Festín Sagital Thanatoloop Sagitaria Pétalo Bisturí La Comunidad de la Lengua
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Topics: psychedelic, avant garde, post industrial, progressive, industrial, electroacoustic, un festin...
